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Laulima Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$475kHuman Services$104kPhilanthropy$58kHealth$30kFood & Nutrition$29kArts & Culture$22kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU$50,000
'IOLANI SCHOOL$30,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$5,000
PARKER SCHOOL$3,500
FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC$2,500
HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOSPICE MAUI: $3k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%HALE KIPA: $4k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER - THE PANTRY: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $2k → 9%T GEORGE PARIS AND VIOLET SUNDAY PARIS FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$624k · 17 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
38

Total granted

$624k
$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • 'S
    'IOLANI SCHOOL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $363k · revenue +57%
  • CU
    CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU
    5× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +43%
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $52k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HN
    HO'OLA NA PUA
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hawaii Education Institute
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2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
5
Hui Pohala

Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…

Health
6
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
7
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…

Education
8
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
9
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
10
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…

Education
11
Hawaii Maritime Center
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12
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School; the most unlike its peers is Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

'IOLANI SCHOOL: $363,450 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $93,500 · EducationCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULUPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+6 more: $40,500 · Education+6 moreCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $51,500 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $8,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 · Other'IO SOCIETY: $7,500 · Other+24 more: $49,600 · Other+24 moreHO'OLA NA PUA: $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $5,000 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE MAUI INC: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS HAWAII: $2,500 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $6,750 · Arts & CultureMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII KEIKI MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$547,450Other$184,100Human Services$48,000Health$25,500Food & Nutrition$23,500Youth Development$15,000Arts & Culture$13,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $363,450 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $93,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $51,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $6,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKER SCHOOL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONSUELO ZOBEL ALGER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUAHEA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOSPICE MAUI INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR OHANA: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS HAWAII: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKa Lima O Maui Ltd: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII KEIKI MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKuleana Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPLASH AQUATICS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundAloha United Way IncCentral Pacific Bank …Bank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…McInerny Foundation--First Hawaiian Bank F…Chung Kun Ai Foundati…The Queen's Medical C…
First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable FoundationHI45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laulima Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laulima Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Laulima Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Laulima Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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